Yes.................
and.............No..........
I understand what you are saying..........however, there ARE outward signs that reveal to the world that we are His disciples.
John 13:34) A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
35 .) By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
As well, in my opinion, water baptism is an outward sign of our inward rebirth/conversion. Revealing to both the world and the Church that we have become disciples of Jesus Christ.
Thanks for the reply,
I would offer yes......... and........... yes.
Seeking after signs as a work we could do, are designed to show the rebellious, natural unconverted man without the Spirit of Christ .
In doing so some forget the law which is not subject to change found in 1 Corinthians 14, that prophecy is for those who believe, without seeing. The faith coming from God principle.
1Co 14:22 Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.
Those who refuse to walk by a faith (Christ’s) coming by prophecy find themselves as the unbelieving Jew(no faith) The Jews downfall described as their stumbling block..
They figured because God was using their outward flesh as types and figures up until the first century reformation it was a sign they had eternal life. When they performed the ceremonial laws they thought it meant it was evidence they were children of God . Just as today with what people call sign gifts, as if there was any outward sign that proved a person had the Spirit of Christ , the Holy Spirit of God. It as it is written alone is the unseen qualifier coming from a new heart and an eternal new spirit which is freely given as our new birth.. .
It is why the unbelieving Jew searched the scriptures in a hope of following after their own flesh. Comparing themselves by and to themselves, commending (venerating as a form of worship ) themselves by themselves and not the scriptures alone (sola scriptura) The same things the Catholics perform today as commandment of men as the oral traditions thereof of the fathers..
Signs did not testify of them seen(the temporal) but Him not seen (the eternal ).The faith principle that they made to no effect by seeking signs. God does not receive honor form men as the witness of men .He knows what is in man, that it is wicked and beyond repair as in who could know their own hearts ?
And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.I receive not honour from men Joh 5:38
A sign today seeing God is no longer brining any new prophecy after any manner( a tongue or a dream as new revelations .Today because we have the whole counsel of God with no loving laws by which we could now Him more intimately with a warning not to add to it. Today is an inward desire (not seen) to do the will of God as it is written.(prophecy) His Spirit witnesses to our spirit we are children of God . It as the testimony of God is between God and the one He gives his faith to..... so that they can believe Him who has no form.
We can see that below with a Jew hoping the flesh of another Jew’s flesh, as the Son of man, puts all Jewish flesh above that which is written.
And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that “hear the word of God, and keep it”.And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet. Luk 11:29